Wednesday, 4 March 2020

Primary care partnerships

Ms RYAN: This month the primary care partnerships celebrate their 20th anniversary. The Andrews government has refused to fund the PCPs beyond 20 June this year despite the very important role that they play in our communities both in improving health and wellbeing and in avoiding unnecessary hospital presentations and admissions. Bec and her team at the Lower Hume PCP are doing great work to improve access to mental health services across the southern end of my electorate, particularly in Mitchell. Their service is vitally important, and I urge the government to provide ongoing funding for them.